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The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro] ⓘ), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) Opera buffa 4 acts Italian Da Ponte, based on Beaumarchais's La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro: 5 soprano, 2 tenor, 1 baritone, 3 bass, chorus [af] 1 May 1786 Burgtheater, Vienna K.492 Score Libretto: 1787 Don Giovanni [ag] Dramma giocoso 2 acts Italian
The play formed the basis for an opera with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte and music by Mozart, also called The Marriage of Figaro (1786). In 1799, another opera based on the same play, La pazza giornata, ovvero Il matrimonio di Figaro, was produced in Venice with libretto by Gaetano Rossi and music by Marcos Portugal.
Filmmaker James Gray, who is directing a new production of 'The Marriage of Figaro' at L.A. Opera, returns Mozart to his 18th century milieu.
The Marriage of Figaro (1786); Don Giovanni (1787); Così fan tutte (1790). All created for the Court Opera in Vienna, they are in Italian, the language considered most suitable for opera at the time, and are Mozart’s most popular operas apart from Die Entführung aus dem Serail and The Magic Flute, composed on German libretti in the ...
What a gentle little Zephyr) is a duettino, or a short duet, from act 3, scene X, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1786 opera The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, to a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. In the duettino, Countess Almaviva (a soprano ) dictates to Susanna (also a soprano) the invitation to a tryst addressed to the countess' husband in a plot ...
The Marriage of Figaro has been filmed as opera several times. 1949 film, East German production with actors and dubbed singing voices, except for Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender as Figaro; 1960 film, Australian TV film, sung in English; 1976 film, directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (see above)
Mozart composed Le nozze di Figaro in 1786, in his first collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on the play La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro) by Beaumarchais. [2] "Dove sono" is an aria of Countess Rosina from the third act, preceded by a recitative, "E Susanna non vien!" (Susanna's not come ...